In his excellent webinar presentation earlier today, Calibrating Water Solutions to Climate Challenges: A Water Resilience Revolution, John Matthews mentioned this paper by Fernando Miralles-Wilhelm et al. Emerging Themes and Future Directions in Watershed Resilience Research.
Abstract
A review of ecological, social, engineering, and integrative approaches to define and apply resilience thinking is presented and comparatively discussed in the context of watershed management. Knowledge gaps are identified through an assessment of this literature and compilation of a set of research questions through stakeholder engagement activities. We derive a proposed research agenda describing key areas of inquiry such as watershed resilience variables and their interactions; leveraging watershed natural properties, processes, and dynamics to facilitate and enable resilience; analytical methods and tools including monitoring, modeling, metrics, and scenario planning, and their applications to watersheds at different spatial and temporal scales, and infusing resilience concepts as core values in watershed adaptive management.
Highlights
A review of ecological, social, engineering, and integrative approaches to define and apply resilience thinking in watersheds is presented and comparatively discussed in the context of watershed adaptive management.
- This literature review is coupled with a collection of research questions compiled through a series of stakeholder engagement activities aimed at identifying knowledge gaps in watershed resilience.
A proposed research agenda on watershed resilience is derived describing key areas of inquiry and a set of research questions on this topic of global importance.
The study of resilience in watersheds presents an important opportunity for the convergence of research in related areas such as social-ecological-hydrological systems, water resources engineering and management, nature-based solutions, resilience thinking applied to water security and developing a resilience focus in adaptive watershed management.
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Enjoy! The future is now!
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